Elon Musk’s Starlink appears to have quietly updated its fair use policy. With the update, customers under the corporate’s “Standard” plan now have unlimited data, versus the previous 1 TB data cap.
The unlimited data allocation system for Starlink’s Standard plan was detailed on the corporate’s official website. “The Standard Service Plan assigns a vast amount of ‘Standard’ data every month to customers. The Standard Service Plan is designed for private, family, or household use,” Starlink’s updated Fair Use policy noted.
Social media users have also shared a message that they received from the private space company. In response to SpaceX’s message, Starlink customers with the corporate’s Standard plan will now not be deprioritized after using up 1 TB of knowledge.
SpaceX also highlighted Starlink’s 4 kinds of service plans — Standard, designed for typical households; Priority, intended for businesses and other high-demand users; Mobile, designed for portable land use like RVs; and Mobile Priority, designed for high-demand, in-motion vehicles, like ships.
It ought to be noted that Priority users will receive unlimited standard data once they eat the priority data allocated for his or her account. Priority users can then subscribe to 1 TB, 2 TB, or 6 TB value of priority data.
The update received positive reactions from users of the satellite web system, with some users noting that even the retired 1 TB data allocation was already quite generous. It’s difficult to argue, nonetheless, that unlimited data for Starlink’s Standard plan remains to be significantly higher than one with a knowledge threshold.
Starlink’s 1 TB fair use policy for the corporate’s entry-level customers was rolled out late last yr. Since then, nonetheless, SpaceX has been capable of launch more satellites for Starlink’s system. Continued optimizations of the corporate’s service have also been implemented.
Starlink’s updated plans could be viewed below.
Starlink Service Plans.pdf by Simon Alvarez